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SOFT CONTACT LENS DESIGN
Module 2.4
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SPONSORS
Development and delivery of contact lens education by IACLE is supported through educational grants and in-kind contributions
Major In-Kind Supporters
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Published in Australia by The International Association of Contact Lens Educators
First Edition 1997 ©The International Association of Contact Lens Educators 1996
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior
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CONTRIBUTORS
Soft Contact Lens Design: Lewis Williams, AQIT(Optom),
MOptom, PhD
For a complete list of acknowledgements please see our
website: www.iacle.org
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SOFT LENS DESIGN
Design matters: • Most with physiologically poorer materials • Least with better materials
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LENS PARAMETERS
Back Parameters
Front Parameters
Simple Tricurve Lens
r2
tc
tpj2 tpj1
r1
r0
rao
ra1
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LENS PARAMETERS
tEA
tER
Ø0
Ø1
Øt Øo0
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SCL DESIGN FACTORS
• Geometric centre thickness (tc) • Lens diameter (total diameter, TD,ØT) • Back optic zone radius (BOZR, r0) • Back surface design • Front optic zone radius (FOZR, ra0) • Front surface design
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SCL DESIGN FACTORS
• Radial edge thickness (tER) • Edge design • Material physical/mechanical
properties • Material physiological properties • Peripheral junctional thicknesses if
transitions exist (tpj)
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DESIGN
• Diameter: greater than HVID • Thickness: overall profile, centre,
mid-periphery • Curvature: variation in radius across
lens, curvature in centre • Design: front/back surfaces • Relationship with the eye:
Ks cf. lens back surface, total diameter cf. HVID
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MATERIAL PROPERTIES
• Material properties are significant in soft lens design
• Water contents of 25-79% - mean material properties vary greatly
• Significance of material properties leads designers to develop material-specific lens series
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With a thin, flexible soft lens material, design is almost irrelevant
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SOFT LENS DESIGN
GEOMETRIC CENTRE THICKNESS ( tc )
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CENTRE THICKNESS CONSIDERATIONS
• Dk/t • Pervaporation prevention • Fitting considerations • Little or no movement
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DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS MINUS LENS SERIES
• Select material • Select a practical FOZD (Øa0) • Select a centre thickness for lenses of about
-3.00 D and greater – lenses <-3.00 D often made thicker and / or with a larger FOZD to improve handling
– lenses >5.00 D may have FOZD decreased to reduce mid-peripheral thickness
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DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS PLUS LENS SERIES
• Select first junction thickness, tpj1. • Select FOZD (Øa0). Centre thickness
reduction by FOZD reduction is limited by vision issues.
• No degrees of freedom remain. Now tc is a function of BVP only.
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WATER CONTENT
Low H2O 20-40% Medium H2O 41-60% High H2O >60%
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High H2O Low H2O
O2
Thin lens
Thick lens
O2
O2
O2
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TRANSMISSIBILITY (Dk/t)
• Dk ∝ H2O content • O2 and CO2 transmissibilities ∝ • Therefore, corneal respiration is
best served by a thin high water lens. However, pervaporation can then occur
1 t
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PERVAPORATION
If lens too thin, corneal dehydration may result • Due to bulk flow of water through lens and
instability of water flow at surface • Subject to individual variation • Worse with higher water content • Results in corneal dehydration from water loss
to air via lens • Dehydration produces epithelial desiccation
staining - pervaporation staining
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PERVAPORATION
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HIGH WATER CONTENT LENSES
• Lose more water than low water lenses (% of total) on eye
• Lose water even when worn in a high-humidity environment
• Experience on-eye lens shrinkage which affects TD and BOZR. These affect fit and need to be taken into account
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SCL DESIGN OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
• Centration – vision, comfort, mechanical
• Movement – debris clearance, comfort
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INTENDED LENS USAGE IS RELEVANT
• For extended wear (EW), cornea’s minimum requirements must be met
• Lesser open eye requirements apply to daily wear (DW)
• EW requirements always > DW
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OEDEMA CYCLE (LENSES WORN)
• Overnight oedema • Incomplete deswelling during day
Persistent chronic residual daytime oedema
(Holden, Mertz, McNally, 1983)
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Overnight lens wear corneal oedema
• Less O2 available • Dependent on Dk/t
On eye opening corneal deswelling
• More O2 available – hydrogel 8% (Dk/t) – RGP 10-11% – (Dk/t and tear pump)
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PREVENTING OEDEMA
9.9% for DW lenses (Dk/t = 24) 17.9% for EW lenses (Dk/t = 87)
How much O2 is needed?
(Holden, Mertz, 1984)
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TO ACHIEVE ZERO DAYTIME OEDEMA
38% 0.033 0.009 0.023 75% 0.166 0.046 0.117
H2O Content DW EW Compromise EW
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HYDROGEL LENSES
All lenses currently available cause >8% overnight oedema
chronic hypoxia Intermittent extended wear
(1-2 nights per week is maximum advisable)
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LIMITATIONS OF CENTRE THICKNESS IN TRANSMISSIBILITY CONSIDERATIONS
Limitations: • tc for minus lenses overestimates Dk/t • tc in plus lenses underestimates Dk/t • Best estimate is average thickness
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TEAR MIXING
Studies have shown: • Little tear mixing under soft lenses • Corneal swelling at any point is related to Dk/tlocal’ hence local thickness is the only relevant dimension
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REASONS FOR POOR TEAR MIXING UNDER A SOFT LENS
• Conformance of lens to eye • Lens thickness and profile • Material properties • Lack of lens movement
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SOFT LENS FITTING PHILOSOPHY
Corneal Apex Limbus
Peri-Limbal Region
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SOFT LENS BOZR
BOZR is less significant than in RGPs because: • A different fitting philosophy is used • More flexible material producing greater
conformity and thinner post post-lens tear film • Larger changes required for clinically significant
alterations to on-eye behaviour • Lenses are more environmentally susceptible
and the effect less predictable
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SOFT LENS BOZR
• Visco-elastic forces induced on decentring aid lens self-centring
• Initial fitting relationship is lost due to conformity, osmotic equilibration, lid pressure and elastic forces induced
• Lens shape most dependent on anterior eye topography
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MATERIAL RIGIDITY
Rigidity α (thickness)3
Rigidity α Elastic Modulus (E) Rigidity α 1
water content
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ELASTIC FORCES
• Hydrogel lenses are deformed by the lid during blinking
• Lens aligns more closely with anterior eye topography
• Visco-elastic forces are induced in the lens • After blink, lens relaxes but process lags behind the
retreat of lids • Force to move lens α 1
tear film thickness
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LENS LAG
• Visco-elastic properties of the lens prevent an instantaneous response
• Lens relaxation may involve movement of, and/or a change in volume of, the post-lens tear film
• If post-lens tear film is very thin it is mainly viscous mucin and lipids. Lens movement is ‘damped’
• Magnitude of lid forces also influences the apparent fit
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SOFT LENS BOZR
For low rigidity lenses, changes of BOZR are less effective in
altering lens fit
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FOZR
The upper lid covers more of a soft lens than an RGP lens. This influences: • Lens resting position (static position) • Movement induced by a blink • Front surface design needed to optimize
lens position and blink-induced movement
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Same Sag, Same Diameter BUT... Different Design = Different Behaviour
S1 S1
D1 D1
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SOFT LENS FITTING PHILOSOPHY
‘Effectively Steeper’
‘Original Fit’
‘Effectively Flatter’ ‘Sam
e’
S2 > S1 > S3 same BOZR
same BOZR
flatter BOZR
S1
D1 S4
D4
≈
S1 S1
D1 D1
S4
D4
S3
D3
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ALTERING SOFT LENS FIT
• Increasing sagittal height (sag) ‘tightens’ lens fit
• Decreasing sag ‘loosens’ fit • Decreasing lens diameter ‘loosens’
fit (sag height decreased) • Increasing lens diameter ‘tightens’
fit (sag height increased)
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BACK SURFACE DESIGNS
• Single curve (moncurve) • Bicurve, second curve often 0.8-1.0 mm flatter
than BOZR about 0.5-0.8 mm wide • Blended multiple spherical curves (multicurve) • Aspheric
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BACK PERIPHERAL CURVES
• Presence or absence of back peripheral curves is insignificant physiologically
(Tomlinson & Soni, 1980) • Changes in back peripheral curves, especially
radical edge lift, affect lens movement substantially
(Tomlinson & Bibby, 1980)
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FRONT SURFACE DESIGN
Front surface design is also important to:
• Lens fit • Comfort
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FRONT SURFACE DESIGN
• Front surface design somewhat dependent on manufacturing process
• If xerogel part of fabrication process, spherical xerogel becomes aspheric after hydration - swelling is anisotropic
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FRONT OPTIC DIAMETER
FOZD
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FRONT SURFACE DESIGNS
• Commonly bicurve, periphery chosen to thin edge • Intersection of FOZR and peripheral
curve defines FOZD • Multiple peripheral spherical curves • Continuous aspheric is uncommon
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FRONT SURFACE DESIGN
Front surface may also include bifocal or multifocal components such as:
• Continuous aspheric surface • Concentric bifocal • Flat-top segment
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SOFT LENS EDGE DESIGN AND THICKNESS
• Edge positioned under both lids • Edge has relatively little effect on comfort • Edge design may be limited by
manufacturing/patent issues • Thickness governed by durability
considerations rather than comfort /physiology concerns
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ASPHERIC SOFT LENSES
• Here ‘aspheric’ means a conicoid • A mathematically regular non-
spherical surface • Based on conic sections • While a circle is a conic it is treated
here as a special case
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CONIC SECTIONS
Circle
Ellipse Parabola
Hyperbola
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CONIC SECTIONS
y2 = 2r0x - x2(1 - e2) where:
e = eccentricity = √(1- b2/a2) b = major diameter of section a = minor diameter
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CONIC SECTIONS
r0
Parabola e=1
Ellipse e=0.5
(0,0)
= 7.80 mm
Circle e=0
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ECCENTRICITY VALUES OF CONIC SECTIONS
Circle e = 0
Ellipse 0 < e < 1.0
Parabola e = 1.0
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ECCENTRICITY
• As eccentricity increases, peripheral flattening increases exponentially
• p = (1 – e2), p = shape factor, an index of peripheral flattening or steepening
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WHY ASPHERIC?
• Aspherics attempt to optimize the lens/cornea relationship
• Aspherics reduce local bearing pressure due to peripheral curve/ transition zone discontinuities
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FIRST ASPHERIC SOFT LENSES
• Con-O-Coid, elliptical back surface • 2 eccentricities offered • Spheres and torics
(Hirst [NZ], early 1970s)
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CORNEA IS NOT SYMMETRICAL
• Asymmetry is usually not large • Cornea is considered an ellipsoid
(first-order approximation) • Eccentricities (e) of the cornea:
H=0.53, V=0.58 (Holden, 1970)
Flat=0.41, Steep=0.44 (Kiely, et al., 1984)
H and V=0.44 (Guillon, et al., 1986)
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AVAILABLE ASPHERICS
• Few aspheric soft lenses are marketed • Most have continuous aspheric back curve. • Production easier with CNC lathes or molding
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SOFT ASPHERICS
• Aspherics require fewer back curve steps to cover range of fits
• Attractive to ‘stock lens’ companies
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ASPHERIC ADVANTAGES
• Better lens/cornea-peri-limbal fitting relationship
• Fewer base curve steps required • Lens fit less sensitive to lens
diameter changes • Increased lens movement • Bearing pressure more uniform
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ASPHERIC DISADVANTAGES
• Lens shape not optically optimal • Adverse visual effects of decentred
lens greater than with spherical lens • Visual acuity may not be optimum • More difficult to manufacture
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ASPHERIC DISADVANTAGES
• More expensive to manufacture • Not as readily available • Perceived to be more complex • May decentre and move more than
spherical design
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MANUFACTURING PROCESS MAY LIMIT LENS DESIGN
Method Lathing
Molding-Anhydrous
Molding-Wet stabilized
Spin-casting
Molding & Lathing
Spin-casting & Lathing
Limitations Simple designs only
Few, but anisotropic expansion on hydration changes lens shape
Almost none
Only simple back surface design possible
Lathing limitations
Lathing limitations
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RANGE OF SOFT LENS PARAMETERS
TD (ØT) BOZR (r0) Centre thickness (tc) Fv Sph Cyl H2O Content Oao tER
12.0 - 15.5 mm
7.6 - 9.6 mm
.035 - 0.35 mm
+35 D
0.50 - 20 D
25 - 79%
6.5 - 11.5 mm
0.05 - 0.25 mm
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LENS MASS
Depends on: • Thickness • BVP • Water content • Diameter
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THE FUTURE
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SOFT LENS MATERIALS
• New and novel materials • More complex designs
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HYDROGEL LENSES TO AVOID RESIDUAL OEDEMA
• Aim to reduce thickness without dessication • Experimental hydrogels incorporating
silicone, fluorocarbon etc. under investigation
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MEAN OCULAR SURFACE DRYING TIME (SECS)
Normal eye 25 Soft lens 7 Rigid lens 4
(Guillon & Guillon, 1990)
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LENS SURFACE MODIFICATION
• Make more wettable • Mimic nature (epithelium/tears) • Durability of modified surface must
match expected lens life
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GAS PLASMA COATING MACHINE
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MODIFIED SURFACE LAYER
Biomimicking surface treatment
TEAR FILM TEAR FILM
SYNTHETIC POLYMER (CONTACT LENS)
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The Perfect lens Design/
Material Combination is yet to
be created!
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See the following slides explaining the symbols, abbreviations, and acronyms used in the IACLE
Contact Lens Course
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SYMBOLS
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ABBREVIATIONS
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ACRONYMS
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ACRONYMS